Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"There were some big naval guns exploding shells near by with a loud whoosh and bouncing my kite up and down. When we unloaded everything, my crew started tossing out whiskey bottles with sticks in their necks, screamers which sound hellishly like big bombs and make searchlight crews scramble for...
Then Dramatic Critic Alan Dent, who organized the party, presented Sir Max with 57 bottles of old wines. Sir Max blinked happily, remembered his neighbors in Abinger, the Surrey village where he now lives, said: "What will the villagers think now of old Gaffer Beerbohm?"
Harassed police ducked beer bottles and bullets, and in armored cars went on an I.R.A. hunt. In two days they jailed 200 suspects, most of them from the grim little streets of the Belfast slums. In the towns they found black flags of defiance dangling from lampposts. In the country...
Soldiers near enough to hit the few towns find expensive beer, and little else. In Fort St. John they mill around on the dusty or muddy main street with lumberjacks, trappers and "dirt stiffs" (construction workers), looking over the waitresses and dumpy Indian girls. Sometimes they get a haircut in...
To Washington last week went President William S. Farish and associates of The Standard Oil Company (N.J.) armed with bottles and briefs, and with grim determination to clear the name of Standard (N.J.) in the eyes of the people (U.S.) The bottles contained samples of certain synthetics now vital in...